If Poverty Is the Question… If Poverty Is the Question…
What does it mean to be poor in America? We can offer no single description of American poverty.
Apr 1, 1999 / Paul Wellstone
The Clinton Doctrine The Clinton Doctrine
President Clinton's decision to use military force against the Serbs was not simply a calculated response to Slobodan Milosevic's intransigence.
Apr 1, 1999 / Michael T. Klare
The Forgotten Oscar The Forgotten Oscar
In the run-up to Sunday's Oscar ceremony the focus was on Elia Kazan and whether the Motion Picture Academy was doing the right thing by honoring him with a Lifetime Achievement ...
Mar 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
A Nike Sneak A Nike Sneak
On January 11 Joseph Ha, a Nike vice president, sent what he thought was a confidential letter to Cu Thi Hau, Vietnam's highest-ranking labor official.
Mar 18, 1999 / Eyal Press
Kissinger and Pinochet Kissinger and Pinochet
Henry Kissinger, realpolitiker nonpareil, never gave a damn about human rights.
Mar 11, 1999 / Peter Kornbluh
Escalation=More Drugs Escalation=More Drugs
Washington has begun the annual spring drug certification ritual.
Mar 11, 1999 / Eva Bertram and Kenneth Sharpe
Kazan and the Bad Times Kazan and the Bad Times
Dalton Trumbo, a militant blacklisted screenwriter and novelist, commenting on the fifties struggle against government attempts to throttle the American left, said that in that b...
Mar 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur Miller
Reckoning in Guatemala Reckoning in Guatemala
The recent release of the report of the Historical Clarification Commission in Guatemala has injected new energy into a process that has been faltering since the signing of the D...
Mar 4, 1999 / David Holiday
Re: Juanita Broaddrick Re: Juanita Broaddrick
We will never know the truth behind Juanita Broaddrick's claim that Bill Clinton raped her in a Little Rock hotel room in l978.
Mar 4, 1999 / Katha Pollitt
Jobs, Justice–Joy Jobs, Justice–Joy
The drinks were pouring, the flesh was pressing and a "dream team" of brassy, bluesy, soul and salsa players out to affiliate San Antonio's Tejano bands with the American Federat...
Mar 4, 1999 / JoAnn Wypijewski